The South Beach Seafood Festival returns Oct. 21 to 24, bringing four days of dinners, chef competitions, and beachfront tastings to Miami Beach while kicking off South Florida’s stone crab season.
Now in its 14th year, the festival opens with a new event, Made in Miami, an intimate collaborative dinner at Phuc Yea featuring chefs Cesar Zapata (Phuc Yea), Jose Mendin (Pubbelly), Fernando Desa (Goya), Michael Beltran (Ariete), Eduardo Lara (Wolf of Tacos) and Eileen Andrade (Finka). Thursday’s An Evening in Miami Beach offers pairing dinners at both Rao’s Miami Beach and Macchialina.
The action moves to Lummus Park on Friday, October 23rd for the VIP Chef Showdown, where 18 chefs will face off in nine different seafood “battles”. Bartenders will also compete in two cocktail showdowns…